Word: gravesend
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thereupon Captain Allen made for London, but news of the two tons of TNT had preceded him, and at Gravesend he was told that the Santa Maria was not wanted. Desperate now, he put in at Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, was shooed off, Iried Sark and alarmed the Channel Islands' Royal Court into passing a special ordinance against him. The Santa Maria lolloped around Land's End to autonomous Lundy Island in the Bristol Channel, but the British Home Office bestirred itself to forbid Captain Allen to unload...
Last week the scene of his great stroke for Capitalism against Depression was again Brooklyn, this time to the west of Coney Island. On Gravesend Bay, where ocean liners, after passing through The Narrows, almost cross his front yard, he owns 13 acres of bona fide land, some 38 acres beneath the sludgy waters of the Bay. What Joe Day wanted above all else was $5,500,000 in cash to build apartments on his land...
...fair June morning in 1668, more than half a century after the mutinous crew of the Discovery had pushed Hendrik Hudson into an open boat in Hudson Bay and set him adrift to die, the 50-ton ketch Nonsuch with a company of 42 hoisted anchor in Gravesend, England and sailed away for Hudson Bay to open up the fur trade. On promise of receiving "two elks and two black beavers." King Charles II gave the "Governor and Company of Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" a charter two years later for the exclusive trade...
...Brooklyn's Gravesend Bay was found the body of Charles Lieberman. father of three, missing since Jan. 28 when he fled from the hospital to which he had taken a small boy he had run down in his automobile. The boy had recovered almost immediately...